Dingus Milktoast wrote:Had a guy call me and my regular partner pussies for taping up to climb some cracks.

The guy said real climbers don't use tape.

This guy bled, that day, profusely. He also failed to send, on top rope, what the pussies led for him.

A few weeks later on an internet site, not this one mind you, the same climber lectured others he taped up because he didn't want scabs on his hands putting off people at work.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Grasshopper learn, HARD WAY.

THEN TAKE CREDIT FOR ADVICE.

Hahahahahahaha!

DMT

Last year in the Torino hut I watched two guys who wanted to climb on the rock spires near it the next day, tape their hands in the evening and then cut the tape off like a glove so they could "slip" into it the next day. Good idea thought I.

Dingus Milktoast wrote: Had a guy call me and my regular partner pussies for taping up to climb some cracks.

The guy said real climbers don't use tape.

This guy bled, that day, profusely. He also failed to send, on top rope, what the pussies led for him.

A few weeks later on an internet site, not this one mind you, the same climber lectured others he taped up because he didn't want scabs on his hands putting off people at work.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Grasshopper learn, HARD WAY.

THEN TAKE CREDIT FOR ADVICE.

Hahahahahahaha!

DMT

Last year in the Torino hut I watched two guys who wanted to climb on the rock spires near it the next day, tape their hands in the evening and then cut the tape off like a glove so they could "slip" into it the next day. Good idea thought I.

My girlfriend made me throw away my rather pungent tape-gloves from Indian Creek when I returned home . I've heard that some people keep their tape-gloves for years and just replace the wrist-wraps...

not much of a phrase, but a square kick in the ass for me as i just started a training blog for climbing:

mark twight, everybody:
The Internet poser's world is hazy: he passes off sporting sub-disciplines for the real thing, hints at things he might do, under-reports the results of things he has done, foregoes events that offer genuine competition, short-strokes reps in the gym, refuses to use objective measuring tools (perhaps to evade the truth), and contrives virtual challenges through which he draws an apparent association with the legitimate event and its participants. This shit makes me sick.